WOMS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Revolutionary Struggle, Foot Binding, One-Child Policy
17 Feb 2018
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Revolution in one year versus prolonged struggle. Ccp: development in the countryside working with the peasants in china. Liberation of women is connected to the larger revolutionary struggle. Most history of china has been through the dynastic rule; circular pattern. Opium wars: weakening of dynasty; framework declining (1839-1842; 1856-1860) Challenges of the 19th and 20th century 1911: the chinese revolution. Kmt: 1924 & 1926: reforms for women: equality between sexes with patrilineal framework, permission for women to inherit, free marriages and divorce, equal pay for equal work. Women are liberated (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) do(cid:374)"t see this. Kmt: violent attacks on radical women (i. e. , setting them on fire, mutilating them, etc. ) 1934: the long march: build communism in the countryside; working with the peasant people. Why join (young: freedom from the abuse of home, escape poverty, access to education opportunities, exciting moment of building something new, equality.
